Fatherhood | Kids | Current Affairs
Sometimes the world makes me tired.
This morning while I was wracking my brain for camp lunch ideas I suddenly realized that my seven year old daughter was standing in the kitchen with me. She wasn’t doing anything, just standing with the vacant expression that appears on her face when the wheels are turning in her head or she is in TV-watching bliss.
I asked her what she was doing and she said she was listening to the radio. [Read more…]
This was the question posed by Sun Media “journalist” Faith Goldy to a woman standing near to me at the anti-choice “March for Life” last week. I was participating in the pro-choice presence as I do every year. Goldy was working her way along the line asking confrontational questions and pushing buttons. Often they were based on incorrect information or false assumptions. Others, like the question she asked about legalizing rape were ridiculous and designed to elicit outrage.
I fell for her interview style. I was unprepared when she came to interview me. She jumped from question to question and each one was argumentative and often ignored what I had previously said. I did a poor job explaining why I was there and why I am pro-choice because my brain’s first reaction to every question was “WHAT?” I didn’t do as I should have and rejected the premise of her questions or take a deep breath before responding to her. Luckily I have this handy blog and can write the response I will give the next time I run into her or any other such troll.
For the past two weeks my life has had clarity, purpose and routine. Today that all came to a crashing halt. I am feeling a little lost and unsure what tomorrow will bring. [Read more…]
Finally is all I have to say. I have been angling for a blog award nomination since my third blog post. Finally it has happened. Oilfield Mom has nominated me for a Liebster Award.
So now that I am a big winner I will do my chain award duties as prescribed below. [Read more…]
As many of you know we had a terrible crash between a double decker bus and a passenger rail train in Ottawa last week. Six people were killed and dozens were injured on the bus. Following the crash there were many photos published in the newspapers and online of the bus with the front sheared off and of the train which derailed as a result of the collision. A couple of days after the crash we learned the names of the five passengers and the driver of the bus who were killed and the Ottawa Citizen ran stories about each of the people killed. [Read more…]